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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity (ludic.mataroa.blog)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making? What the actual fuck are you talking about?

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I don't believe you. No one with a brain believes you, and if your board believes what you just wrote on the survey then they should fire you.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

College? Pythagorean Theorem is mid-level high school math.

I did once talk to a high school math teacher about a graphics program I was hacking away on at the time, and she was surprised that I actually use the stuff she teaches. Which is to say that I wouldn't expect most programmers to know it exactly off the top of their head, but I would expect they've been exposed to it and can look it up if needed. I happen to have it pretty well ingrained in my brain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, you learn it in the context of finding the hypotenuse of a triangle, but:

a lot of people are "bad" at math (more unconfident), but good with logic
geometry, trig, etc require a lot of memorization, so it's easy to forget things
interviews are stressful, and good applicants will space on basic things

So when I'm interviewing, I try to provide things like algorithms that they probably know but are likely to space on, and focus on the part I care about: can they reason their way through a problem and produce working code, and then turn around and review their code. Programming is mostly googling stuff (APIs, algorithms, etc), I want to know if they can google the right stuff.

And yeah, we let applicants look stuff up, we just short circuit the less important stuff so they have time to show us the important parts. We dedicate 20-30 min to coding (up to an hour if they rocked at questions and are struggling on code), and we expect a working solution and for them to ask questions about vague requirements. It's a software engineering test, not a math test.